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What remains of media art?

International congress concerning the production, presentation
and preservation of media art

19. – 22. June 2003 in Dortmund
Zeche Zollern II/IV, Dortmund-Bövinghausen, Grubenweg 5

CONGRESS

Registration

The complete programme of the congress will be available from mid-April 2003 on.
Language of the congress: English

Speakers

Programme

Subjects (choice)

Installative works of media art / software and net based art
Whereas, over the past ten years, international standards have been developed with regard to the conservation of video tapes, research into preservation – or "re-enactment" – of installative works of media art is still in its infancy. Not to mention software and net based art, that hardly anyone regards as a cultural asset worthy of conservation. The congress will therefore give particular attention to problems concerning the production, presentation and preservation of multimedia installations, net art and software art. Additionally, examples from computer-game culture will be discussed in regards to questions of presentation and preservation.

Methods of preserving, documenting and archiving media art
On the basis of actual examples, the aim of the congress is to discuss methodologies of preservation (e.g. emulation) as well as methods of documenting and archiving media art.

Media art theory
Another focus will be on investigating media art in terms of art theory, for instance dealing with the aspects of its processual and "unstable" nature, its embeddedness in space or a specific context as well as its philosophies of a multiple or open authorship. Many works of media art therefore defy a determination in terms of an "original" state to be fixed, and on which art theory, curators or conservators could rely. What could/should this mean to the discussion of media art?

Exhibition: Antoni Muntadas
Parallel to the congress the exhibition On Translation: Das Museum by Antoni Muntadas will be on view at the Dortmund Museum am Ostwall. The exhibition reflects on, amongst other things, the mechanisms of the presentation and interpretation of (media) art in museums, especially taking into account works that originally were conceived as interventions in public spaces, as a video conference or internet projects.

"Side Step": Anna Oppermann
Questions of documentation and reconstruction will also be examined using the example of Anna Oppermann's installations. The artist, who deceased in 1993, created complex paper based "ensembles", which cannot be classified as belonging to the sector of media art in a classical sense, but however, in terms of aspects of "authenticity" and "reconstruction" pose similar questions.

Infrastructures for media art: what has been realized, what is missing?
Finally, the aim of the congress is also to formulate demands to be made of institutions, politicians involved in cultural policy, and educational institutions in order to safeguard the long-term, decentralised infrastructures required for the production, presentation and conservation of media art.


REGISTRATION

Participation in the congress requires written registration and advance payment of the conference fee

Registration Deadlines
- before or on 15 May 2003 at a reduced congress fee
- from 16 May 2003 on at the standard congress fee

Registration form (pdf document)


Congress fees

reduced
In case of written registration before or on 15 May 2003

Congress ticket 120 EUR/ 50 EUR (students)
Day ticket 60 EUR / 25 EUR (students)

standard
In case of written registration from 16 May 2003 on

Congress ticket 140 EUR/ 70 EUR (students)
Day ticket 70 EUR / 35 EUR (students)

Contact
T/F: +49 (0)231 – 88 20 240, post@hartware-projekte.de